The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . floor leadto the galleries. A gallery fifty feet wide extends around all foursides, and projecting from it are eighty-six smaller galleries twelve•feet wide. These galleries form a splendid post of vantage fromWhich to survey the swaying throng beneath and the wilderness ofattractive exhibits. To those who enjoy the study of human na-ture and the characteristics of a crowd, and desire a rest from theconstant strain of seeuig manufactured wonders, these galleries are a delightful place of obser-vation, and over their rail-ings one may view mate-
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . floor leadto the galleries. A gallery fifty feet wide extends around all foursides, and projecting from it are eighty-six smaller galleries twelve•feet wide. These galleries form a splendid post of vantage fromWhich to survey the swaying throng beneath and the wilderness ofattractive exhibits. To those who enjoy the study of human na-ture and the characteristics of a crowd, and desire a rest from theconstant strain of seeuig manufactured wonders, these galleries are a delightful place of obser-vation, and over their rail-ings one may view mate-rial enough for a philoso-phers meditations for acentury. This great building oc-cupies a position as de-lightful as it it facesLake Michigan, with noth-ing except promenadesand green sward separat-ing these two embodi-ments of greatness. Hereat the east front of theereat house is a favoriteresort during the hot afternoons of summer. The enormous roof,a third of a mile In length, casts a shadow even to the waters edge,. EXHIBIT OF STOVE CO. MANUFACTURES. 99 and the breeze blowing from off the surface of the huge body offresh water gives rest tothe weary and relief tothose whom heat hasburdened. Toward thesouth is the Grand Canal,Iand across its waters one!sees the Building for Ag-riculture and its crowningjobject of art, the statue of across the Ca-nal is the Building foriElectricity. To the northis the United StatesGovernment Buildino-and the GovernmentlPl^za. From whicheverof| these directions the!building is approached,the orreat roof is that
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